Microsoft advocates new WiFi-NC to make use of white spaces in spectrum

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four years ago, the FCC began allowing limited use of the so-called white spaces in the electromagnetic spectrum that is shared by all wireless devices (in the United States). The white spaces highlighted by the FCC concerned bands of unused space within television broadcasts. Subsequently, Microsoft developed a database, called SenseLess that wireless devices could use to identify such white spaces. Now, Microsoft has gone a step further and is championing a new Wi-Fi standard that makes use of the database it created. Called WiFi-NC, (for narrow-channel) the new standard is based on using groups of radios and receivers simultaneously to make use of many small bands at once.

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